Chess Equity Project
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Amplifying women’s voices and supporting increased participation of girls and women in chess.
Full interview coming soon! Economist Julia Engel explains that whenever a system fails to produce the best overall results (for example, by denying opportunities to women in chess), that reveals inefficiency in the system, which should be fixed. www.youtube.com/shorts/DRlJo...
Why Is This Economics?
YouTube video by The Chess Equity Project
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One hundred women and girls have qualified for the Queens' Online Chess Festival Semi-Final! Watch all the games in our broadcast, starting at 13:00 UTC: lichess.org/broadcast/qu... The top eight players will advance to the final on 29 March.
Queens' Online Chess Festival | Semifinals • Round 1
9-round Swiss | 3 min + 2 sec / move | standard | lichess.org
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Part 1 of our mission statement is to research barriers to girls’ and women’s participation in chess and educate the chess community about those barriers #chess #womeninchess
Participation rates account for 96% of chess's performance gender gap open.substack.com/pub/chessequ... #chess #womeninchess
Biological Sex Differences and Chess Performance (Part 2 of 2)
Participation rates account for nearly all of the gender gap in performance
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This project will amplify women’s voices and work to reduce the gender cap in chess. Follow along! substack.com/@chessequity...
The Chess Equity Project
Our Mission and the Way Forward
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Biological Sex Differences and Chess Performance (Part 1) open.substack.com/pub/chessequ...
Biological Sex Differences and Chess Performance (Part 1)
Though men and women differ biologically in many ways, none of those differences explain chess's gender gap
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